Lead Electrical Engineer - Sustaining

Atlas Copco Group; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Culture of trust

Career growth

Innovation powered by people

Compensation & benefits

Health & wellbeing

Job summary

Edwards, a brand within Atlas Copco Group, seeks a Lead Electrical Engineer - Sustaining to drive strategic technical leadership across sustaining engineering for Bristol sites and service division. You will chair design reviews, set electrical engineering approaches, ensure repeatable solutions, and mentor engineers toward leadership roles, while upholding safety and regulatory standards.

This role offers a hybrid working arrangement at our Bristol site, with remote and on-site collaboration

Qualifications

• Degree in Engineering/Science required (essential).
• Experience in sustaining engineering / product lifecycle support (essential).
• Ability to influence technical decisions across disciplines without direct authority (essential).
• Structured problem solving, risk assessment and verification thinking to resolve complex issues (essential).
• Deep technical competence in one or more engineering disciplines with ability to learn adjacent domains (essential).
• Excellent problem solving and data-driven root cause analysis (essential).
• Strong understanding of change control, configuration management and technical documentation (essential).
• Plan and execute verification activities (test/analysis) and assess risk (essential).
• Excellent influencing and communication of complex topics to mixed audiences (essential).

Responsibilities

• Chair and assure design reviews; provide design governance across sustaining projects.
• Set electrical engineering approaches for sustaining projects; ensure repeatable solutions.
• Accountable for technical elements of product system/subsystem design; identify risks and mitigations.
• Ensure modularity and standardisation to maximise reuse of engineering effort.
• Oversee safety and type testing; review/approve related reports.
• Mentor and coach a growing team of Electrical Engineers at all levels.
• Lead adoption of best practice electrical engineering and new technologies across projects.

Skills

Problem solving

Analytical skills

Influencing skills

Communication

Leadership

Education

Degree in Engineering/Science

Tools

8D / Kepner-Tregoe / Six Sigma

Job description

As a Lead Electrical Engineer - Sustaining, r eporting to the Technical Programme Manager, the Lead Electrical Engineer provides strategic technical leadership across the Sustaining Engineering function, supporting both Product Company Clevedon and the Service Division. The role ensures consistent application of engineering standards, robust design governance, and high-quality technical outputs across sustaining programmes. Working across factory support, obsolescence management, and field upgrade initiatives, the role drives safe, compliant, and serviceable design solutions that protect in-service performance and customer value. Key responsibilities include chairing and assuring design reviews, setting and maintaining electrical engineering approaches for sustaining projects, and ensuring solutions are aligned and repeatable across the sustaining portfolio.

• Work at the core of our engineering and product development teams using engineering tools and methods to bring clarity from ambiguity and deliver products that meet Requirements, Standards, Directives, and are cost effective.
• Work collaboratively with and effectively influence our engineering teams to ensure clarity of work packages, deliverables, and resolve engineering issues through determining the best solution.
• Be accountable for the technical elements of the product system and/or subsystem design, as assigned, identifying risks, control and mitigation actions, escalating issues when necessary for higher-level resolution.
• Ensure modularity and standardisation is incorporated to maximise reuse of our engineering effort.
• Be accountable for safety and type testing of any system or subsystem you are responsible for, verifying and validating its compliance; reviewing and approving reports generated in this area, by the team.
• Mentor and coach a growing core team of Electrical Engineers of all levels of expertise to continue their development towards being a Lead Electrical Engineer themselves.
• Advocate and lead the adoption of best practice electrical engineering and new technologies (working with other teams in new and core technology development) across applicable projects to improve the delivery of engineering.

To succeed, you will need

• Educated to Degree level (or equivalent experience) in a relevant Engineering/Science discipline (Essential).
• Formal training in problem solving / root cause analysis (e.g., 8D, Kepner-Tregoe, Six Sigma) or equivalent practical experience (Desirable).
• Significant experience in sustaining engineering / product lifecycle support, including investigation of field issues and delivery of corrective actions through engineering change (Essential).
• Proven ability to work across multiple engineering disciplines and stakeholders, influencing technical decisions without direct authority (Essential).
• Experience applying structured problem solving, risk assessment, and verification thinking to resolve complex technical issues (Essential).
• Deep technical competence in one or more relevant engineering disciplines with the ability to rapidly understand adjacent domains (Essential).
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills; able to use data to drive to root cause and define pragmatic corrective actions (Essential).
• Strong understanding of engineering change, configuration control, and technical documentation practices (Essential).
• Ability to plan and execute verification activities (test, analysis) and assess risk using appropriate methods (e.g., FMEA) (Essential).
• Excellent influencing skills and the ability to communicate complex technical topics clearly to mixed audiences (Essential).

In return, we offer

• Culture of trust and accountability
• Lifelong learning and career growth
• Innovation powered by people
• Comprehensive compensation and benefits
• Health and well-being

Job location

This role offers a hybrid working arrangement, allowing you to split your time between working remotely and being on-site at our office in Bristol, United Kingdom (GB).

Behind every innovative solution, there are people working together to transform the future. With careers sparked by initiative and lifelong learning, we are uniting curious minds, and you could be one of them.

Information at a Glance

Edwards is a leader in the vacuum and abatement markets. The brand’s products are essential for industries such as semiconductor, power generation, chemical and food processing. Edwards believes in working with customers to set new standards and creating environments where innovation thrives. This trailblazer prides itself on making a difference in areas that are intrinsic to people’s everyday lives – from the medical care they receive to the coffee they drink. Wherever there is vacuum, Edwards can also be found, leading the way. Edwards is a brand within Atlas Copco Group.